Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb base] they from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 2 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 3 | But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’ |
| 4 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 5 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 6 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 7 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 8 | Salt ways present no special features that distinguish them from other roads and lanes on the map or on the ground . |
| 9 | Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies . |